Lesson I Missed

Due to being in France I missed the lesson where they planned what was going to happen in a timeline, however my group have told me what I need to do. Currently we are getting our costumes together and props as well as learning our lines from the scripts we wrote.

Soup script

Waitresses are moving around robotically without any friendly interaction with audience members. The atmosphere is cold and bitter and the workers are doing everything correctly accept from one who seems to be quite distressed in her gestures and hectic movements.

Waitress 1: (repeating to herself flustered, whilst looking at the cameras and posters on the walls) war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.

(She walks in a hurry to serve the soup carrying cutlery, a bowl of soup a plate of bread and a glass on a tray. She bumps into the lead waitress dropping everything she’s holding making a loud noise )

Lead waitress: (shouting angrily) you clumsy fool!

Waitress: (fragmented and scared) I’m sorry, I don’t know what’s wrong with me today I-

Lead waitress: You stop right there! I’ll tell you what’s wrong that thought criminal has got to you haven’t she! Everyone this woman is a t –

Waitress 1: (cutting in) NO! I’m not, and I would never betray the party.

Lead Waitress: Don’t let those criminals get into your mind alright?

(weeps)

Waitress 1: I just don’t want them to hurt her

Lead waitress: Hurt her? What are you talking about, you must be sick. They will teach her the right way to be, she’s clearly a lost soul that needs bringing back, so she can be normal

Waitress 1: What’s normal?

(Continues to weep)

Lead waitress; (sternly) stop crying your embarrassing yourself, people are watching. It’s clear you’re effected now if I was you I would shut up whilst your ahead. I’ll be rid of you in a second, you’re not a star waitress and I will not have another one of my workers disgrace this kitchen.

Waitress 1: That’s enough now, I am not a criminal! And I’m a good waitress stop it!

Lead Waitress: (starting to get angry) Don’t you dare tell me when to stop now clean up this mess now!

Waitress 1: (stares at the cameras and whispers)Why do they have to watch us all the time?

Lead waitress? : (shocked) what did you just say?

Waitress 1: I-

Waitress 2: (covers Waitress 1’s mouth) Just ignore her she in an awfully weird mood

Pause (lead waitress stares at them both suspiciously)

Waitress 1: I’m truly sorry it won’t happen again, I won’t be so clumsy (quickly starts clearing)

Lead waitress: (sighs) Just get back to work, this is way too much chaos for one day in a lunch hall, and your talk is beginning to frighten me.



(Through the speaker you can hear) ‘War is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength) and Waitress 1 continues to weep silently to herself whilst they all repeat this.

Timeline

6:45- heating soup and cutting bread. Making sure the live feed is set and properly
7:00- cutting bread, sweeping floor, serving soup
7:10- meal time ( an alarm rings, everyone rushes into the food hall to get a meal. Two people follow in after the rush, whispering and acting suspicious)
7:20/25- stealing food
7:35- cleaners and cooks talking to audience
7:45- rebellion leaflet
7:50- soup spills 

This is our timeline for our performance just in our room - I have highlighted the parts I am involved in.

Multimedia Performance

In our performance we will be using multimedia. Multimedia refers to the use of the processes, techniques and product of media such as film and radio in the creation and performance of a piece of live theatre.

(http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/backstage/multimedia)

In our performance we will be using audio, images, videos, projection, live feed and a few other types of multimedia. Projection can be used in theatre to create an illusion, set a location or tell a story.

In the Wizard of Oz projection is used to created the twister and also t make the wizards head. Here projection is useful because it creates a more realistic scene and it is more imaginative.

Projection is also used in A Curious incident of the dog in the night-time to show the boys thoughts. Using projection the audience are able to see the thoughts that are trapped in his head and it make s the performance more interesting and exciting.

Immersive Theatre

Immersive theatre is when a piece of drama involves the audience within the performance. It is when the audience no longer watch the show, they become part of it and have to create the performance with the actors. Our 1984 piece will involve immersive theatre so I have researched three companies that use immersive theatre in their performances.

Punchdrunk


Punchdrunk works with producing and commissioning partners to create the unforgettable theatrical experiences of the future. Since 2000 Punchdrunk created by Felix Barrett have been creating performances that focus on the audience as much as the focus on the performers. They have performed many different shows and are now currently performing: The drowned man: A Hollywood fable. Punchdrunk is funded by Arts Council England and Esmee Fairbain Foundation.

http://punchdrunk.com/
(source 5)

Secret Cinema

Secret cinema is an organisation that was formed in December 2007. Secret cinema use music, sound , film and theatre in their performances which they perform in abandoned places. Secret cinema is there so that audiences can lose themselves in imagination and fiction that challenge social and cultural interaction.

http://www.secretcinema.org/
(Source 6)

Dream Think Speak

This company was founded in 1999 by Tristan Sharps and it creates and produces his works. The performance uses film and installations alongside live performance so that they can take their audiences on a journey. They have performed in many different spaces even though it is a Brighton based group.

www.dreamthinkspeak.com

(Source 7)

Ministry Food Hall

Ideas and notes

Characters = Cleaner (rebel), lead cook and second cook (party supporters, Third cook (scared doesn't know what side to be on), guard.

Needs to have a strong smell of food - Soup, water, bread - electric hot plate.

Posters - Missing people on walls - recruitment and big brother.

Windows clear so can look down onto training.

TV Screen = for all to see (live confessions, show there success, hangings, traitors)

Speakers - Slogans being repeated.

Notes from Film = live confessions, telescreen showing how successful they are, tin can bowls, dirty, posters, grey, victory gin, language from the mouth not the mind, double plus good, hangings, busy and crowded.

Guard - watching with gun.

Camera filming canteen, live feed into )O'Brien's office.

Costume - white apron, hairnet, grey skirt, grey shirt, black shoes, tights and surgical gloves.

Find dramatic moments to happen over your 1-hour period.

• Spilling soup
• Stealing food
• Cleaner encouraging rebellion
• Catching leaflets
• TV announcements
• Watching O'Brien's monologue

Props List.

Tables, Chairs, Soup pt, Ladle, Electric hot plate. bowls, cutlery, cups, metal Jug, Posters, Tv Screen or Projector, Speaker, Camera (live feed), leaflets, serving table, costumes, stickers, broom, cloth, gun, food, ingredients, water.

Scripts.

Rebellion Leaflet script

(The cleaner is sitting discussing to audience members and handing out leaflets, cook one (leader) sees paper with a sign on and walks over)

Cook one: What are these you are hiding?

Cleaner: (tries to hide the leaflet) Nothing, just some leaflets about the newspeak dictionary.

(Cook one takes a leaflet from a member of the audience, which shows a rebel organisation)

Cook one: What do you think you are doing? Give me all of these right now (Shouting) (to cleaner) you here now, stand there. (To the audience) Whatever these leaflets are telling you they are wrong, they are lies. The party is double plus good and should have your full support. The party give us our homes and our jobs, they protect us from war and we cannot live without them. Big brother is our leader and we should all love him, he is our protector and anyone who disagrees is WRONG!

Cleaner: Don’t listen to her /him, don’t let her contr…

Cook one: ENOUGH! You two (choses to audience members) in the corner now. (To cleaner) Who made you hand out these leaflets, tell me now!

Cleaner: NEVER (shouts)

Cook one: (to audience) how are you involved in this?

IMPROVISATION with two audience members and cleaner

Cook One: right, because you’re not telling me the truth or who has put you up to this, I’m going to have to take you to O’Brien and he will decide your fate from there.

Cleaner: NO PLEASE HE WILL SEND ME TO ROOM 101 PLEASE IM SORRY PLEASE.

Cook One: This is my duty and I must see it through.

(Take to O’Brien’s office more IMPROVISATION)


Stealing of food

Cook 2 stops working and goes other to the kitchen area, thinking no one is looking, she grabs some bread and hide’s it in her pocket. Cook 1 catches her and walks over to where cook 1 has continued to work pretending she didn’t steal a thing.

Cook 1: What do you think you’re doing? Put it back now!

Cook 2: (Nervously) I…I have no idea what you’re talking about

Cook 1: The Bread! Put it back now!

Cook 2: I...I don’t have any (nervously fiddles with the pocket the bread is in)

Cook 1: (Looks down at her pocket of where cook 1 is fiddling, and pulls the bread out) what is this? BREAD! That’s what!

(she grabs hold of cook 2 and drags her towards the back of the food hall, cook 2 starts screaming, she gets thrown out the door.)

Cook 2: (she screams through the door) NO! PLEASE!!! I DIDN’T MEAN TO!

(Cook 1 walks through the door and slams it shut behind her, cook 2 is still screaming, a slam comes from behind the door. The screaming suddenly stops; cook 1 returns and carries on working as if nothing happened)

Multimedia Plans.

Lighting - Dark, dim lighting - Flickering lights.

Live feed - filming audience in canteen.
Equipment: 

Camera in our room in a position where it can see everyone, and a screen that is connected to it in O'Brien's office.
Idea:

So that the audience can see they are being watched when they go look in O'Brien's office they will realise they were being watched in the canteen without knowing.

Screen - to show notices and slogans

For this we will need a TV or Computer screen and have an ongoing video always playing. The screen will have to be quite big so that everyone can see it, therefore we might have to use a projector.

Second Prezi

This prezi could be used to introduce the audience to the rebellion. 

My prezi: http://prezi.com/s0t_qi9_wzwm/its-a-beautiful-thing-the-destruction-of-worlds/

My prezi talks about all the negatives in the party so this could be used on all the TV screens around are rooms. At the end of the performance we play to have a rebellion starting so this could be shown on all the screens so that the rebellion can get their message across. However to make this fit for the scene I would probably have to make it more specific and take things out.